The ban on "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors" was signed into the Russian federal law by Vladimir Putin in June 2013. This law, also known as the “anti-gay law”, is just one more example of a tendency to regression to a more intolerant society. In June 2020 a...
Yaroslav Bulavin: Russian Lifestyle
A documentary photo project about the life of Russian girls in student dormitories and communal apartments. Photos were taken in 2018 in St. Petersburg and Moscow. A communal apartment is a legacy of the USSR, an apartment in which rooms are divided between different residents with a common bathroom and...
Petr Antonov: Ruins
The project explores the church ruin in contemporary Russian landscape and how it becomes a metaphor for the country’s recent history. Although the exact number of churches forcibly closed during the Soviet period is not known, it may be assumed that between four and five thousand churches currently remain in...
Filippo Valoti Alebardi: Land of Gold
Magadan Oblast is one of major gold mining regions in Russia. More known like Kolyma this region is situated in the Oriental Siberia. In 30-s this subarctic region was populated by prisoners of Gulag, that were building roads, towns and infrastructure for gold mining in a cold endless forest at...
Egor Kirillov: Melting Cities
Murmansk is the largest city in the polar circle. 310 thousand people lived there in 1971. In 20 years the population has grown to almost half a million. This was due to the growth of the fishing and naval industries and huge progress in all areas of city life. People...
Roman Demyanenko: Vorkuta
Vorkuta is situated in permafrost zone, 150 km from the Arctic Circle, only 180 km from the Arctic Ocean coastline, and it is the easternmost town in Europe. In 1930 Georgii Chernov’s expedition discovered the largest and best quality industrial coal fields in Eastern Europe near place where later was...
Tatiana Afinogenova: Fabulous Nights Of Russian Province
Says Tatiana: My project is dedicated to one of my favorite genres of photography - night landscape. Since childhood, I liked to walk until late at night and admire the beautiful starry sky. Thanks to my camera, I can share with the viewer the fabulous atmosphere that I feel while...
Andrey Shapran: Territory of Space
This is the history of observations and study of the Arctic zone located in the Far North (Chukotka, Russia). The territory, most of which is not inhabited by people, was very often closed in the Soviet period due to the presence of military bases and is difficult to access geographically,...
Raffaele Petralla: Cosmodrome – Waste From The Sky
On the border with the Arctic Circle. Far north of Russia. 300 km from Arkhangelsk. Restricted area. Here Inhabitants - who base their own survival on hunting and fishing activities – use to build sledges and boats with fragments of space rockets. They also recover and sell all the other...
Sergey Nazarov: Against
A new surge of protest activity covered almost all regions of Russia in 2017. The number of participants in protest actions was different depending on the regions, but undoubtedly, these actions can be called the most numerous and large-scale protests since 2012. Tens of thousands of people came to the...